Subject: People (Page 92)

Behind every great man there lies a great woman… and one in front of him as well if he’s lucky.

(1967 – ) English comedian

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist

Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author

Til I was nine, my mother was still trying to get an abortion.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

Good hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even when you wish they were.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

(1741 – 1794) French writer

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there.

American film & television producer

Englishmen think over a compliment for a week, so that by the time they pay it, it is addled, like a bad egg.

(1863 – 1930) British novelist & playwright

I was the best I ever had.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

In the duel of sex, woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

(1956 – ) comedian, television host, social critic & political commentator

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved with the broth.

Philanderer: A man who considers himself too good to be true.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

(1819 – 1891) American novelist, essayist & poet

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realize how much we have in common.

(1957 – ) English actor, writer, journalist, comedian & film director

If you do something right once, someone will ask you to do it again.

There are four kinds of people: those who sit quietly and do nothing, those who talk about sitting quietly and doing nothing, those who do things, and those who talk about doing things.

Whatever women do, they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good.